Live coverage: Central American immigrants arriving in Murrieta

A border station in Riverside County’s Murrieta has become a flashpoint for an immigration debate that has exploded in recent days as a humanitarian crisis has emerged at the nation’s southern border and President Obama has called for billions of dollars to deal with it.

At the Murrieta station, anti-immigration protesters have kept vigilant and actually turned away busloads of immigrants, seeing themselves as holding the line against what would be an influx of more immigrants if they left and gave up their protests.

But immigration advocates are demanding a humanitarian response that offers due process rights and protection to fleeing immigrants.

A bus full of those immigrants is due to arrive at 1 p.m. today at the Murrieta border patrol station, a day after Obama appealed to Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis on the nation’s border.